Marguerite Cartwright’s under-examined professional career in the 1950s as a professor, journalist, and even close confidant to national liberation movement leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe, placed her at the forefront of debates on decolonization and the place of people of African descent on the world stage. Her coverage in the black press (U.S., West Africa) and public lectures stressed the importance of decolonization and its relevance to the lives of African Americans. Analyzing her articles, speeches, and personal correspondences, this talk focuses on public responses, including lay readers and movement leaders, to her news coverage. A renowned Africa-expert in her own time, recovering Cartwright’s work not only restores her intellectual contributions as a black woman journalist, but also expands historical understanding about how the black press shaped African American perceptions of African decolonization specifically, and global decolonization more broadly.